He started his piano studies at the age of 4. He then entered the Colombian National Conservatory of Music, where he studied piano between 1982 and 1996. compositional emphasis.The combination of his family ancestry and his academic studies, rooted in Colombian musical traditions, led him to seek a new musical language with rhythmic, timbre and harmonic richness, in which elements of Colombian musical traditions are intertwined. academic music and jazz have resulted in his own style that paved the way for new perspectives in Colombian music from the Andean region.